The opportunity
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
What you'll do
Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma's: infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact
Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage,: distributed systems, cloud-native performance improvements, and compliance programs (e.g., encryption key management, FedRAMP, SOC 2)
Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to: ensure alignment and on-time delivery
Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple: infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering
Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and: internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies
Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management,: improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies
What they're looking for
- Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical: infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability
- Translate technical constraints and risks into executive-level communications: for senior leadership and external stakeholders
- + years in Infrastructure TPM or related roles (cloud engineering, SRE, or: infra-focused software engineering), with hands-on experience in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Deep technical expertise across infrastructure components: storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), caching (Redis), search (OpenSearch), and event-driven systems (Kafka) - with the ability to reason across org-level goals, architectural trade-offs, and component-level details
